Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 7th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-7-J3J61GMJ6G
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: The ancient Roman goddess Vesta
Bummer June 7th
June 7, 1937: 26-year-old actress Jean Harlow dies of kidney failure. Her illness may have been a complication from a case of scarlet fever she contracted as a teen.
June 7, 1984: On or around this date, the Indian Army burns the Sikh Reference Library building in Punjab, India, to the ground. The library held approximately 20,000 materials, including irreplaceable handwritten manuscripts. The status of these materials is unknown and considered classified by the Indian government; they may have been destroyed, sold off into private collections, or held in an undisclosed archive somewhere.
June 7, 1993: NBA player Dražen Petrović is killed in a road accident while riding on the German Autobahn highway system in Bavaria. Petrović is not wearing a safety belt and is ejected from the vehicle, which is driven by his girlfriend.
June 7, 2016: Recent college graduate Colin Scott, age 23, goes to see his sister Sable. The two visit Yellowstone National Park together. Near the Norris Geyser Basin, Sable and Colin veer off the boardwalk where visitors are encouraged to walk. Colin falls into a natural hot spring, where he dies by some combination of drowning and burns from the scalding-hot water. Colin’s body cannot be recovered, having largely been dissolved in the hot, acidic water.
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